If you thought being cut off from the open bar at your best friend’s wedding was cruel and unusual punishment, check out the new regulations for weddings in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, which include strict rules about dancing, cake-cutting, and, strangely, shooting any and all firearms. Bummer. Worse, failure to…

Ramzan Kadyrov is some guy. The Chechen leader is close pals with Putin, has been accused of torture, kidnappings and assassinations around Chechnya, and loves to flex on Instagram! Standout posts include the dead body of an Islamic militant with the caption “Dogs will die like dogs,” and a photo of Chechen-American…

The bombing of the Moscow metro on Monday, which killed 39, has been attributed to two women, restarting the conversation about Chechen "black widows" and female suicide bombers in general. But are they really so different from their male counterparts?

Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment building on Oct. 7, 2006, but the trial of her supposed murderers began this Wednesday, a little over two years after her death. The new documentary Letter to Anna investigates the forces that led to her murder — and that may…